WGU D081 Innovative and Strategic
Thinking OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT
ACTUAL EXAM 2025/2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT
ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<NEWEST VERSION>
1. Strategic Management - ANSWER ✓ the process of ensuring all
activities and resources in the organization work to achieve its
business strategy.
2. Decision Making Process - ANSWER ✓ A seven-step process to
make strategic decisions informed by data
3. Data Analysis - ANSWER ✓ Process of evaluating and
interpreting data using analytical and statistical tools to uncover
business insights
4. Business analysis - ANSWER ✓ use of data about the internal and
external business environment to identify business needs and
objectives
5. Widgets - ANSWER ✓ mini-apps that can be added to customize a
home screen
,6. Scenario planning - ANSWER ✓ Method of strategic planning that
uses plausible scenarios to help an organization create flexible
long-term plans in the face of uncertainty
7. Initiative - ANSWER ✓ An organizational priority that identifies a
direction or strategic area of focus
8. Innovation - ANSWER ✓ Process of developing and implementing
a new product or process that delivers value to users or customers
9. Iterative - ANSWER ✓ Repeated cycles that increasingly approach
the desired result
10. Creativity - ANSWER ✓ Generation of novel or unique ideas
11. Critical Thinking - ANSWER ✓ Disciplined process of
rational, evidenced-based, and open-minded thinking that involves
analysis and evaluation of inputs to reach an answer
12. Market Share - ANSWER ✓ The percentage of sales in a
market controlled by a particular company or product
13. Customer Value - ANSWER ✓ The benefit (vs. cost) a
customer receives from a product or service offering
14. Product Innovations - ANSWER ✓ New or improved goods
or services offered to the market
15. Market Culture - ANSWER ✓ Type of externally focused,
controlled organizational culture.
16. Market Share - ANSWER ✓ The percentage of sales in a
market controlled by a particular company or product.
,17. Micro Environment - ANSWER ✓ Elements in an
organization's immediate external environment that effect its
performance.
18. Multidivisional - ANSWER ✓ Type of organizational
structure where multiple semiautonomous divisions report to
central management (such as subsidiaries to a parent company).
19. Organizational Culture - ANSWER ✓ The beliefs, values,
assumptions, expectations, priorities, behaviors, and interaction
styles that define the unique social and psychological environment
of an organization
20. Organizational Values - ANSWER ✓ The fundamental
beliefs and principles upon which an organization and its behavior
are based
21. Process Innovations - ANSWER ✓ New or improved ways
of conducting business, such as the application of new technology,
production techniques, or distribution methods
22. Invention - ANSWER ✓ The creation of a unique new idea,
process, or object
23. Transformational - ANSWER ✓ Organizational adaptation
and development of new processes and business models.
24. Critical Thinking - ANSWER ✓ Disciplined process of
rational, evidenced-based, and open-minded thinking that involves
analysis and evaluation of inputs to reach an answer.
25. Customer Value - ANSWER ✓ The benefit (vs. cost) a
customer receives from a product or service offering
, 26. Data Analysis - ANSWER ✓ Process of evaluating and
interpreting data using analytical and statistical tools to uncover
business insights
27. Decision Making Process - ANSWER ✓ A seven-step
process to make strategic decisions informed by data.
28. Defined Benefit Plan - ANSWER ✓ Stage of Design
Thinking process that builds on observations of users to identify
and refine a problem statement
29. Departmentalization - ANSWER ✓ Grouping of processes,
activities, and resources into functional units.
30. Descriptive Analytics - ANSWER ✓ Process by which
historical data is analyzed and interpreted to provide business
insights.
31. Design Thinking - ANSWER ✓ A human-centered process
for innovation consisting of six iterative stages-empathize, define,
ideate, prototype, test, and implement.
32. Charlie believes that the company's newly designed battery is
unique in a way that will add direct value to their customers and
hopes that this difference will increase sales.
What form of innovation is he using? - ANSWER ✓ Product
33. One of the production managers identifies a change in
technique that will allow the company to reduce the number of
steps required in production. An indirect benefit of this reduction is
lower cost for the consumer.
Thinking OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT
ACTUAL EXAM 2025/2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT
ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<NEWEST VERSION>
1. Strategic Management - ANSWER ✓ the process of ensuring all
activities and resources in the organization work to achieve its
business strategy.
2. Decision Making Process - ANSWER ✓ A seven-step process to
make strategic decisions informed by data
3. Data Analysis - ANSWER ✓ Process of evaluating and
interpreting data using analytical and statistical tools to uncover
business insights
4. Business analysis - ANSWER ✓ use of data about the internal and
external business environment to identify business needs and
objectives
5. Widgets - ANSWER ✓ mini-apps that can be added to customize a
home screen
,6. Scenario planning - ANSWER ✓ Method of strategic planning that
uses plausible scenarios to help an organization create flexible
long-term plans in the face of uncertainty
7. Initiative - ANSWER ✓ An organizational priority that identifies a
direction or strategic area of focus
8. Innovation - ANSWER ✓ Process of developing and implementing
a new product or process that delivers value to users or customers
9. Iterative - ANSWER ✓ Repeated cycles that increasingly approach
the desired result
10. Creativity - ANSWER ✓ Generation of novel or unique ideas
11. Critical Thinking - ANSWER ✓ Disciplined process of
rational, evidenced-based, and open-minded thinking that involves
analysis and evaluation of inputs to reach an answer
12. Market Share - ANSWER ✓ The percentage of sales in a
market controlled by a particular company or product
13. Customer Value - ANSWER ✓ The benefit (vs. cost) a
customer receives from a product or service offering
14. Product Innovations - ANSWER ✓ New or improved goods
or services offered to the market
15. Market Culture - ANSWER ✓ Type of externally focused,
controlled organizational culture.
16. Market Share - ANSWER ✓ The percentage of sales in a
market controlled by a particular company or product.
,17. Micro Environment - ANSWER ✓ Elements in an
organization's immediate external environment that effect its
performance.
18. Multidivisional - ANSWER ✓ Type of organizational
structure where multiple semiautonomous divisions report to
central management (such as subsidiaries to a parent company).
19. Organizational Culture - ANSWER ✓ The beliefs, values,
assumptions, expectations, priorities, behaviors, and interaction
styles that define the unique social and psychological environment
of an organization
20. Organizational Values - ANSWER ✓ The fundamental
beliefs and principles upon which an organization and its behavior
are based
21. Process Innovations - ANSWER ✓ New or improved ways
of conducting business, such as the application of new technology,
production techniques, or distribution methods
22. Invention - ANSWER ✓ The creation of a unique new idea,
process, or object
23. Transformational - ANSWER ✓ Organizational adaptation
and development of new processes and business models.
24. Critical Thinking - ANSWER ✓ Disciplined process of
rational, evidenced-based, and open-minded thinking that involves
analysis and evaluation of inputs to reach an answer.
25. Customer Value - ANSWER ✓ The benefit (vs. cost) a
customer receives from a product or service offering
, 26. Data Analysis - ANSWER ✓ Process of evaluating and
interpreting data using analytical and statistical tools to uncover
business insights
27. Decision Making Process - ANSWER ✓ A seven-step
process to make strategic decisions informed by data.
28. Defined Benefit Plan - ANSWER ✓ Stage of Design
Thinking process that builds on observations of users to identify
and refine a problem statement
29. Departmentalization - ANSWER ✓ Grouping of processes,
activities, and resources into functional units.
30. Descriptive Analytics - ANSWER ✓ Process by which
historical data is analyzed and interpreted to provide business
insights.
31. Design Thinking - ANSWER ✓ A human-centered process
for innovation consisting of six iterative stages-empathize, define,
ideate, prototype, test, and implement.
32. Charlie believes that the company's newly designed battery is
unique in a way that will add direct value to their customers and
hopes that this difference will increase sales.
What form of innovation is he using? - ANSWER ✓ Product
33. One of the production managers identifies a change in
technique that will allow the company to reduce the number of
steps required in production. An indirect benefit of this reduction is
lower cost for the consumer.
